[support] Accessing non-drupal tables with Views?

[Gregg Marshall]

There is documentation for views 3 (sort of) in the advanced help.  But if
you don't want to implement that module there's a copy on line, the page you
are looking for is at http://views-help.doc.logrus.com/help/views/api-tables
which helped but is a bit confusing (and possibly  not complete), but when
supplemented by this issue, http://drupal.org/node/370013, especially the
PATCH in it, I was able to get something working using hook_views_data.

 

Gregg

 

From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Metzler, David
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 5:04 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Accessing non-drupal tables with Views?

 

You would have to write a views integration module to do this (expose the
data) to your module. Normally I'd point you to the views 3 api
documentation, but that doesn't appear to have been written yet. If you're
interested in this approach you might try filing a support request asking
how different the views 3 api is from the views 2 api which is documented.


 

You might also take a look at project forena, which is written as a more
general report writing engine.  

 

FULL DISCLOSURE: 
I'm the maintainer of the forena module. 

 

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Wipe_Out
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 3:33 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Accessing non-drupal tables with Views?

 

Hi,

 

I have a Drupal7 site that shares a database with another application.. I
would like to use views to publish data from the applications tables to
users..

 

Anyone have any ideas how to do this??

 

I have searched the internet but not found anything.. Certainly nothing for
D7..

 

TIA

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